GC: 1TS COOL TH4T YOU W4NT TO H3LP H34L M3 4ND 4LLGC: BUTGC: 1 ST1LL DONT R34LLY KNOW 4NYTH1NG 4BOUT YOUGC: OTH3R TH4N TH4T YOU S33M L1K3 SOM3 SORT OF MUCH N1C3R VR1SK4GC: WH3R3 W3R3 YOU FROM 4G41N? 4LT3RN14 B3FOR3 V4N1LL4 M1LKSH4K3 N4M3D 1T TH4T?AG: Yes. 8ut in a different universe instance, I often refer to as A1. The shorthand helps avoid confusion, trust me.AG: My group of twelve played the game, 8ut failed. It overwhelmed us. A lot went wrong. The reckoning destroyed our 8attlefield well 8efore we had any hope of winning.AG: I sought advice from Echidna, and she told me how to scratch the session to give us another chance.AG: 8ut the choice to do so came with accepting the annihilation of our existing forms. In the new instance, we would lead completely different lives with no memory of what happened.AG: So we did, and created A2. Your instance, your world, and your game in which we were all inexplica8ly created in the first place.AG: As I said, this time around the world was........ interesting.GC: TH4T'S WH3N TROLLS B3C4M3 T3RR1BL3?AG: Not all of you.AG: Some had lessons from the old world to teach others. 8ut few ever heard them.GC: SO 1N YOUR T1M3, 3V3RYON3 W4S 4S N1C3 4S YOU?AG: Not exactly. 8ut life was pretty mild and uneventful.AG: I'm not even sure if I was especially nice, 8y our standards.AG: Mostly kind of 8oring.AG: No8ody from my party liked me a whole lot.AG: I think I talked too much, and had a ha8it of 8ringing conversations 8ack around to myself.AG: Not that it matters anymore, 8ut it was not the 8est way to make friends.GC: H3H3H3H3. YOU R34LLY 4R3 L1K3 4 N1C3 VR1SK4GC: 1 DUNNO, 1 W4S FR13NDS W1TH H3R 4ND SH3 D1D 4LMOST NOTH1NG BUT T4LK 4BOUT H3RS3LFGC: 1M PR3TTY SUR3 YOU 4ND 1 WOULD H4V3 B33N GOOD FR13NDS TOO!AG: Thanks!AG: It goes to show, just 8ecause your race is peaceful doesn't mean you don't have pro8lems.AG: I used to fantasize a8out 8eing someone really outgoing and dramatic.AG: Someone who had the confidence do whatever she wanted, like go on the most outrageous adventures without caring what anyone thought a8out her.AG: Like someone from a 8ook, you know?GC: Y3S!GC: 1 US3D TO TH1NK 4BOUT TH4T 4 LOT TOO >:]AG: It turned out I actually got what I wanted after the reset. Unfortunately it came along with our people's enslavement and near extinction.AG: Not that I really got to live as her, exactly. 8ut at least I got a chance to follow her life. And it was a very long life.AG: 8eing here for ages has its 8enefits.

Hey check it out. Every week we'll be revealing some new troll characters from Hiveswap until Act 2 is out. Follow the Troll Call here, and meet the first two here. Expect a few more surprises like this to drop in coming weeks.